2018 World Chess Championship
Magnus Carlsen vs Fabiano CaruanaHeld on
- 2018 world chess championship was held from Nov 8 2018 to Nov 28 2018 at The College, Holborn in London,England,UK.
Defending Champion and the Challenger
- 2018 World Chess Championship was held between the reigning world chess champion Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana.
Classical portion
- Fabiano Caruana and Magnus Carlsen played very well against each other that they both scored 6 and ended up with 12 consecutive draws.
- It was the only time in the world chess championship history,all classical games have been drawn.
* The first classical game between Fabiano Caruana and Magnus Carlsen
https://lichess.org/study/fCum15PU/MjZu9a7k
*The last classical game between Fabiano Caruana and Magnus Carlsen
https://lichess.org/study/fCum15PU/cdw4dqyu
Rapid portion
- Since all the classical games have resulted in draws. They had to play a rapid portion to determine the world chess champion in 2018.
- Even though everyone thought that maybe these games will all be resulted in draws, Magnus Carlsen convincingly retained his world chess champion title by beating Fabiano Caruana 3-0 in the rapid match in the rapid portion tiebreak.
3.The first rapid tiebreaker.
https://lichess.org/study/fCum15PU/5eYxFKB4
The second rapid tiebreaker.
https://lichess.org/study/fCum15PU/84jWPJte
The third rapid tiebreaker.
https://lichess.org/study/fCum15PU/WRuVkHBM